Constructing diversity and civility in the United States and Latin America: implications for ethnographic educational research / Elsie Rockwell -- When policy moves fast, how long can ethnography take? / Geoffrey Walford -- Contradictory logics in the social construction of teaching in Argentina: an ethnography of the notebook of professional performance / Graciela Batallán -- Spatiotemporal fluidity and culturally relevant pedagogy in the Latino diaspora / Stanton Wortham and Margaret Contreras -- The role of institutional education projects in the reconstruction of the school labyrinth / Rafael Ávila Peñagos and Marina Camargo Abello -- Alternative educational projects: technical developments and political debate in the everyday workings of "nongraded schools" in Argentina / Ana Padawer -- The role of ethnographic research in education policy: a trail to blaze / Etelvina Sandoval Flores -- Education policy and ethnography: problems, prospects, and new directions / Patricia Medina Melgarejo -- Perspective-taking in the practice-research gap: using ethnography to help schools see themselves / Peter Demerath -- Workshop discussion: ethnography and policy-the state of the art / Participants in the eighth interamerican symposium -- A teacher in transition: coming to terms with prior beliefs / Barbara Greybeck -- Teaching an ethnographic vision as a way into policy? A Brazilian perspective on ethnography as a social control practice / Isabela Cabral Félix de Sousa.